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Dr. Joan Mellen Oral History
Audio oral history interview with Dr. Joan Mellen. A prolific author and professor emeritus at Temple University in Philadelphia, Mellen met New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison in 1969 and maintained contact with him for twenty years. Her decade-long study of his life and career yielded the books "A Farewell to Justice" (2005) and "Jim Garrison, His Life and Times - The Early Years" (2008).Interview conducted by telephone on August 9, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and three minutes long.
Dr. Joan Mellen Oral History
08/09/2010
Born digital (.wav file)
Duration: 63 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2010.001.0089
Dr. Joan Mellen was a professor of English at Temple University in Philadelphia from 1980 to 2011 and, as of spring 2024, remains professor emeritus. In addition to her two titles about controversial New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, she has written more than twenty books, including titles exploring Lyndon Johnson, Texas politics, the CIA and the 1967 attack on the U.S.S. Liberty. Six of her books are in the Museum's Library Collection and may be found here: Bibliovation | Catalog Search Results. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Dr. Joan Mellen Oral History
Audio oral history interview with Dr. Joan Mellen. A prolific author and professor emeritus at Temple University in Philadelphia, Mellen met New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison in 1969 and maintained contact with him for twenty years. Her decade-long study of his life and career yielded the books "A Farewell to Justice" (2005) and "Jim Garrison, His Life and Times - The Early Years" (2008).Interview conducted by telephone on August 9, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and three minutes long.
Dr. Joan Mellen Oral History
08/09/2010
Dallas
Oral histories
Researchers
Author
Conspiracy theories
Mellen, Joan
Garrison, Jim
Shaw, Clay
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Ferrie, David
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)
Popular Culture (OHC)
Born digital (.wav file)
Duration: 63 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2010.001.0089
Dr. Joan Mellen was a professor of English at Temple University in Philadelphia from 1980 to 2011 and, as of spring 2024, remains professor emeritus. In addition to her two titles about controversial New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, she has written more than twenty books, including titles exploring Lyndon Johnson, Texas politics, the CIA and the 1967 attack on the U.S.S. Liberty. Six of her books are in the Museum's Library Collection and may be found here: Bibliovation | Catalog Search Results. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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